I am sure there this would already have been covered on an earlier thread but my searches drew a blank.

Nice and simple really what do you think are the top ten things any Island visitor should have to do on thier bucket list.

Here is two to start you off  1 do a lap 2 go to peel for a davisons ice cream

Go say hello to the Fairy s , then have the time of your life , don't worry about the other 8 as its more like a 108 and there is no way you will get them all done , so just make sure you book up for the next twenty years

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In no particular order..
1 Murrays Museum in Stanton. It is a proper shed/man cave.
2 Find a place to watch from that has home made Manx food. Harolds and Conker feilds are two.
3 Go visit Stella and Jurby Junk if only once, and if only to say WTF!
4 Ice Cream at Peel or Port Erin.
5 A drink in Bushys, again, if only once.
6 Do a lap of the Southern 100 Course.
7 If it is a nice clear day, have a sit at the Calf Of Man and the Point Of Ayre on the same day.
8 Have a breakfast in Harrys Cafe, again if only once.
9 Take a picture of the score board.
10 Go have a sit by Joeys statue on the Mountain and absorb the atmosphere.

Some of them may not be there over the next few years, so the sooner the better!!

(20-01-2015, 11:42 AM)c iom tt Wrote: In no particular order..
1 Murrays Museum in Stanton. It is a proper shed/man cave.
2 Find a place to watch from that has home made Manx food. Harolds and Conker feilds are two.
3 Take a ride on the IOM Steam Railway, Douglas to Castletown, and visit Castle Rushen
4 Ice Cream at Peel or Port Erin.
5 Visit the Laxey Wheel
6 Do a lap of the Southern 100 Course.
7 If it is a nice clear day, have a sit at the Calf Of Man and the Point Of Ayre on the same day.
8 Have a breakfast in Harrys Cafe, again if only once.
9 Take a picture of the score board.
10 Go have a sit by Joeys statue on the Mountain and absorb the atmosphere.

Some of them may not be there over the next few years, so the sooner the better!!

I'm largely in agreement, but I've edited one or two

Hasn't Harry's Cafe been renamed ? cant remember what to off hand , or am I thinking of the wrong place ??

is that the one on ham and egg terrace

visit the douglas museum for a couple of hours

do the full trip from port erin to the top of snaefell on steam and electric trains and horse trams and back again its a full day

Well remember one day in our early years of going and having a rover ticket for the trams trains and buses and we were camping at Nobles park and it was raining bucket loads so decided to follow the coast as close as we could all the way round the Island using all the forms of transport we could with our tickets just to try and keep dry and have somthing to do and see , we had a great time , and when we got back to the campsite half the tents had been flooded and people were sheltering in hall's and getting put up by local residents , and our tent less than a couple of m away from one that was washed out was bone dry , not sure what year round about 96 /97 I would think

(28-01-2015, 08:19 PM)Steady the Edward Wrote: Well remember one day in our early years of going and having a rover ticket for the trams trains and buses and we were camping at Nobles park and it was raining bucket loads so decided to follow the coast as close as we could all the way round the Island using all the forms of transport we could with our tickets just to try and keep dry and have somthing to do and see , we had a great time , and when we got back to the campsite half the tents had been flooded and people were sheltering in hall's and getting put up by local residents , and  our tent less than a couple of m away from one that was washed out was bone dry , not sure what year round about 96 /97 I would think

That was 1998 Eddy, Hondas 50th Celebration year.
Proper washout that year!

Ye thinking about it, I think you are spot on there C iom TT , I remember how the Manx people came up trumps as they often do and opened up their homes to washed out campers , putting them up and drying them out and often refusing to take anything in return , some of the nicest people in the world them Manxies

10 things, in no specific order

1. Bushy's beer tent - TT institution
2. Murray's Museum at Santon
3. Walk round the paddock
4. Pint in the Creg na Ba
5. Davidson's ice cream
6. Fish & Chips from the place on the quey in Peel
7. Viking museum in Peel
8. Visit to ARE collection at Kirkmichael
9. Jurby Junk
10. Visit to Steve Hislop's statue

Some of my favourites not mentioned yet.
In no particular order:
Druidale
Moore's Kipper House Peel
Woolen Mills Laxey
Waterfall at Glen Maye
Mooragh Park Ramsey
Silverdale Glen
Snaefell Mountain Railway
Castle Rushen Castletown
The Chasms
Exhibition and warming up engines in Ramsey square close to Castle Rushen